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Tuesday, April 2, 2013

The Concrete and the Chemicals

The riptide greets the water's edge, he says it's good to
meet againThe sun is out, it protects us, it lets the fish in my belly swimFive thousand years ago, we danced with the comets from outer spaceIt was our nature them, indigenous, and now I feel out of placeFor the goods that grace us all, we destroy what's in our path(No mercy, no mercy)Understanding of the purpose of the nature of the worldAnd then man came, we welcomed him with plants and food to eatTranquil rivers and tall pines for shade now all but obsoleteBrother dear would beautify the woods amongst us allAnd now he runs and hides from the hunterTo keep his head from the hunter's wallFor the goods that grace us all, we destroy what's in our pathUnderstanding of the purpose of the nature of the worldThe gravitational pullCan never be wrongBut to live all as oneHas taken too longMother EarthAnd deservedly soHas given birth to us allAnd there's nothing to glowBut greed and corruption, violence, pollutionHate, a disease, a new constitutionWe need to gather 'round a global huddleGive praise to the ones that we lost in the struggleAnd spread the love, yo, spread the loveSpread the love, spread the love, spread the love(No mercy, no mercy)For the goods that grace us all, we destroy what's at our pathAaaahh (No mercy), oooooh (No mercy)Understanding of the purpose of the nature of the worldAnd now the skies are covered upFrom a blue to a shade of grayA man in red many moons agoHad a vision it would come somedayFive thousand years ago, the earth we now denyWas the greatest canvas ever paintedUnder the eastern sky(No mercy, no mercy)For the goods that grace us all, we destroy what's at our pathUnderstanding of the purpose of the nature of the world(No mercy ,no mercy)For the creatures and the fish, and the people of the sunFor the concrete and the chemicals, kills the nature in us allKills the nature in us allKills the nature in us all

4 comments:

Thank you, Ariel...What a beautiful song and video. The song says a lot about the darkness & light which we all feel, or at least... I hope most of us. It seems wisdom comes with age, but my hope is for the young to become wise sooner, for that is the only way to turn this earth around. It's easy to be vocal, harder to do the work needed.